List of Cabinet Ministers of Uttar Pradesh: The Constitution of India does not describe the size of the state council of ministers or the ranking of ministers. They are determined by the chief ministers as per the exigencies of the time and requirements of the situation.
Like at the Centre, in states also, the council of ministers consists of three categories of ministers namely cabinet ministers, ministers of state, and deputy ministers. Of all these ministers, at the top stands the chief minister. He or she is the supreme authority in the state.
The cabinet is the nucleus of the council of ministers and consists of only the cabinet ministers. It is the real centre of authority in state government. Let's have a look at the list of cabinet ministers of the Uttar Pradesh government.
List of Cabinet Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
| S.No | Name | Position | Department |
| 1. | Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister | Appointment, Personnel, Home, Vigilance, Housing and Urban Planning, Revenue, Food and Logistics, Civil Supplies, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Mining and Minerals, Economics and Statistics, State Taxes and Registration, General Administration, Secretariat Administration, Confidential, Information, Election, Institutional Finance, Planning, State Property, U.P. Reconstitution Coordination, Administrative Reforms, Program Implementation, Infrastructure, Language, Deprivation Aid and Rehabilitation, Public Service Management, Rent Control, Protocol, Sainik Welfare and P.R.D., Civil Aviation, Law & Legislative Department |
| 2. | Keshav Prasad Maurya | Deputy Chief Minister | Rural Development, Overall Village Development, Rural Engineering, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax and Public Enterprises and National Integration |
| 3. | Brajesh Pathak | Deputy Chief Minister | Medical Education, Medical Health, Family Welfare, Mother and Child Welfare |
| 4. | Suresh Kumar Khanna | Cabinet Minister | Finance and Parliamentary Affairs. |
| 5. | Surya Pratap Shahi | Cabinet Minister | Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Agricultural Research. |
| 6. | Swatantra Dev Singh | Cabinet Minister | Jal Shakti and Flood Control |
| 7. | Baby Rani Maurya | Cabinet Minister | Women's Welfare, Child Development and Nutrition |
| 8. | Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary | Cabinet Minister | Sugarcane Development and Sugar Industry |
| 9. | Jayveer Singh | Cabinet Minister | Tourism and Culture |
| 10. | Dharmpal Singh | Cabinet Minister | Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development, Political Pension, Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj and Civil Defence |
| 11. | Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ | Cabinet Minister | Industrial Development, Export Promotion, NRI and Investment Promotion |
| 12. | Anil Rajbhar | Cabinet Minister | Labour and Employment, Co-ordination. |
| 13. | Jitin Prasad | Cabinet Minister | Public Works Department |
| 14. | Rakesh Sachan | Cabinet Minister | Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Khadi and Villages Industries, Sericulture Industries, Handloom and Textile |
| 15. | Arvind Kumar Sharma | Cabinet Minister | Urban Development, Overall Urban Development, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Energy, Additional Sources of Energy |
| 16. | Yogendra Upadhyay | Cabinet Minister | Higher Education, Science and Technology, Electronics and Information Technology |
| 17. | Shri Ashish Patel | Technical Education, Consumer Protection, Weights and Measures | |
| 18. | Shri Sanjay Nishad | Cabinet Minister | Fisheries |
READ| Difference between Council of Ministers and Cabinet
What are the roles performed by the cabinet?
- Cabinet is the chief policy formulating body of the state government.
- It is the highest decision-making authority in the political-administrative system of a state.
- It is an advisory body to the governor and the supreme executive authority of the state government.
- It is the chief coordinator of the state administration.
- It deals with all major legislative and financial matters.
- It is also the chief crisis manager and deals with all emergency situations.
- It exercises control over higher appointments including constitutional authorities and senior secretariat administrators.
Also, the cabinet works through various committees known as cabinet committees. They are of two types, namely standing and ad hoc.
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